UNSPSC 50345410: Frozen comice pears

The variety of pears known as comice pears that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50345410 Frozen comice pears is a Commodity code that does not match the scope of work currently being solicited under it in state and local procurement. Recent opportunities tagged with this code overwhelmingly solicit comprehensive grocery and food service contracts spanning hundreds of line items—fresh and frozen produce, proteins, dairy, prepared foods, and consumable supplies—rather than frozen comice pears as a single SKU. The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts and state health and human services agencies procuring food service for institutional nutrition programs. A representative recent opportunity is the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017660 (July 27, 2026 response date) for approximately 110 grocery line items to supply Big Spring State Hospital for the 2026–27 contract year; another is the Bridgeport Board of Education's IFB BNB052266 (June 30, 2026 response date) for over 1,100 grocery line items supporting the National School Lunch Program. The mismatch suggests the code may have been auto-applied to broad food procurement solicitations rather than being the intended commodity classification.

Geographic activity spans Texas, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Florida, California, and Oregon, with school districts and state institutional food service agencies as the dominant buyers. The sourcing pattern reflects federal child nutrition program requirements (Buy American provisions, USDA compliance, HACCP certification, nutrition standards) and the scale of institutional meal programs rather than specialty produce procurement. If your firm pursues this code, expect to compete on comprehensive food-service contracts requiring broad product depth, cold chain logistics, delivery scheduling across multiple sites, federal compliance infrastructure, and multi-facility service capability, not on comice pear supply alone.